A man was shot and seriously wounded on a Red Line train near the 47th Street Red Line station Tuesday evening.
The train was near the 47th Street stop in the 4600 block of South Wentworth Avenue when the man got into an argument with someone who pulled out a gun and opened fire about 7:50 p.m., Chicago police said.
The man was struck in the back and legs, and he was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in serious condition, police said.
Officers at the scene taped off the entrance to the station as a few frustrated passengers looked for other ways to get their destinations.
Kewhawn George, who was on the train when the shooting happened, said he was listening to something on his headphones when two men started fighting.
George said one man beat the other to the ground, and the man on the ground retaliated by shooting.
"I was like, is this is really happening? It was a big disbelief," George said. "Everybody was just shocked, a lot of people screaming."
When the train reached the 47th Street stop and the doors opened everybody started running, George said, adding that the fight which led to the shooting seemed to have started after one person bumped into the other.
Red Line service was suspended between the Roosevelt and 63rd street stations shortly after the incident, but service resumed with delays by 9:20 p.m., the CTA said.
Last week, a man was killed in a shooting just outside of the 79th Street Red Line station.
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